Ana Gomez-Bravo Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040)
FT-51815-03
Summer Stipends
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$5,000 (approved) $5,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2003 – 7/31/2003
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Literacy, Space, and Cultural Production in Late Medieval Iberia
My project studies some key aspects of the cultural context that facilitates a thriving literary activity in late-medieval Iberia. It takes into consideration the intersections of politics and society, and their relationship with developments in literacy, reading and writing modes, book production, and the practices of authorship. A central argument for this study is my contention that literary and cultural activities were tightly dependent on the differentiation and diversification of a public and private space at the end of the Middle Ages. This fostered and was fostered by a growth in literacy and a shift in the spatialization of the court that responded to social and political changes.
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